Show HN: Writekin – fine-tune a local LLM on your own writing, on your Mac
Writekin ingests your own writing — Mail, Messages, documents, chat exports — curates it into a training corpus, fine-tunes a local language model (QLoRA on Apple Silicon via MLX), and then drafts and rewrites text that sounds like you. Screenshots Overview — your corpus at a glance. Train — a local QLoRA run with a live loss chart.
- ▪Writekin ingests your own writing — Mail, Messages, documents, chat exports — curates it into a training corpus, fine-tunes a local language model (QLoRA on Apple Silicon via MLX), and then drafts and rewrites text that sounds like you.
- ▪Screenshots Overview — your corpus at a glance.
- ▪Train — a local QLoRA run with a live loss chart.
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Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/scouttyg/writekin |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:05:12 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-28T19:15:32.686Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-28T19:15:32.686Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 2R3T3FjX7KpY · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Writekin Writing that's kin to yours. Writekin ingests your own writing — Mail, Messages, documents, chat exports — curates it into a training corpus, fine-tunes a local language model (QLoRA on Apple Silicon via MLX), and then drafts and rewrites text that sounds like you. Everything happens on your Mac. Screenshots Overview — your corpus at a glance. Compose — draft and rewrite in your voice. Train — a local QLoRA run with a live loss chart. Models — the on-device model library. Privacy model Nothing leaves your machine. Ingestion, training, and generation are all local. There is no telemetry, no analytics, and no account. The auto-update check (Sparkle) requests one file — the release feed — and sends no system profile.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.